Ben Shapiro Reviews Spielberg's Disclosure Day

Ben Shapiro delivers a scathing review of Spielberg's latest film, *Disclosure Day*, calling it a missed opportunity that fails to live up to its own premise. Despite being a lifelong Spielberg fan, Shapiro finds the film’s central idea—what happens when humanity discovers aliens—underdeveloped and implausible. The movie spends two hours building toward a revelation that’s treated as a universal peacebringer, yet the alien footage is unimpressive and the emotional payoff is undercut by a lack of stakes and coherent worldbuilding. Shapiro criticizes the film’s outdated media logic—relying on broadcast networks to spread news in the age of the internet—and its weak script, which fails to explore the societal, religious, or geopolitical consequences of alien disclosure. Even the iconic John Williams score falls flat, and the performances feel overwrought. The film’s ending, which cuts to black mid-alien speech, underscores its lack of substance. Ultimately, Shapiro rates it a 2.5 out of 5, lamenting that Spielberg’s talent is wasted on a film that feels like a pastiche of his earlier work without the depth or vision that made it great.